Name: margalit
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Professional writer, educational advocate, opinionated ultra liberal mother of 18 year old twins, living life in the slow
lane due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, and diabetes.

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

There's diversity and then there's Diversity

Today I got a formal letter from the state regarding an appeal that I requested. With the letter, there was a page that had part of the letter translated into 10 different languages besides English. What interested me was the language choices. While some made perfect sense, other languages surprised me because I had no idea that there was such a large population of said language speakers.

So, this is a quiz. Can you guess what 10 languages the letter was translated into? Remember, this is Massachusetts we're discussing. What 10 different populations are so large as to require a separate translation? Reply in the comments. First person to win gets a book from their choice of three selections.

Everyone missed the Cambodian and Laotian, and yet MA has huge populations of both ethnicities in Lowell and Lawrence. And only one person mentioned the possibility of Haitian Creole, which I found surprising since we have a HUGE population of both Haitians and Cape Verdeans.

So anyhow, that's the answers. Were you surprised?

I'll have to figure out who the winner is, since it's virtually a tie!

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